In order to study the influence of the softening and swelling of weakly cemented soft rock on the stability of roadway surrounding rock, based on the background of the general return airway in the south wing of Yuwu coal mine, 4 different schemes are designed according to whether the softening or swelling effect of weak cemented soft rock is considered. Based on the numerical simulation program, FLAC^3D was used to analyze the distribution characteristics of the shear stress, displacement, and plastic zone of the surrounding rock of the roadway under these 4 designs. On this basis, in view of the geological conditions of the roadway, a new type of grouting+anchor cable mesh+bottom arch combined support plan is proposed. The research results show that, under the conventional anchor-net-cable-spraying support scheme, the surrounding rock of the roadway can remain stable without considering the softening and expansion of the weakly cemented soft rock in contact with water and its maximum displacement and plastic zone depth are only 66.9mm and 2.8m. When considering the softening and swelling of weakly cemented soft rock roadways, due to the synergistic effect of the two, the maximum displacement of the surrounding rock of the roadway and the depth of the plastic zone will reach 517.4mm and 6.7m, respectively, which will continue to increase with excavating along the roadway and lead to ultimately destabilization and destruction. After adopting the combined support of grouting+anchor cable mesh+bottom arch, the maximum displacement of the surrounding rock of the roadway and the depth of the plastic zone will be reduced by 77.192.0 and 18.772.4, respectively, and they will basically remain stable after excavation of 5 days.

Understanding the performance of concrete in the marine environment is significant for preventing the corrosion of chloride ion for marine buildings. In this study, the uniaxial compressive strength (UCS), chloride ion concentration (CIC), microstructure, and pore structure of admixture concretes were tested to study the mechanical properties and microscopic characteristics under the single marine corrosion, the single freezing‐thawing, and the coupled marine corrosion and freezing‐thawing conditions. The results indicate that the concrete mixed with both fly ash and mineral powder has better UCS, chloride ion penetration resistance, and freezing‐thawing resistance than the concrete with the single fly ash or mineral powder. Under the marine corrosion environment and coupled corrosion and freezing‐thawing environment, the UCS of the concrete with both fly ash and mineral powder increases firstly and then decreases with the increase of the corrosion time. This is because the pore of the filling body is filled by large crystalline salts generated by the reaction of chloride ions and concrete; then, cementation of the cement is increased in the early corrosion; meanwhile, the increase of crystal salt in the subsequent corrosion process leads to the growth of microcracks and the formation of macrocracks in concrete specimens. In addition, a freezing‐thawing‐corrosion composite strength impact factor is introduced to describe the effect of coupled corrosion and freezing‐thawing on the mechanical property of the concrete. The results show that the corrosion is the dominant factor after 0, 30, and 60 freezing‐thawing cycles, while the freezing‐thawing is the dominant factor after 90 freezing‐thawing cycles.

Solid backfill coal mining (SBCM) is a green mining technology which can effectively alleviate the environmental problems induced by traditional coal mining techniques, such as surface subsidence, water resources loss, coal gangue occupation, and pollution. In this study, a multilayer Winkler foundation beam model for the overburden key strata is proposed, and the model with two key strata is solved. The subsidence, rotating angle, inner force, and stress of the overburden key strata are systematically analyzed under various backfill elastic modulus, mining height, and soft layer thickness. The results show that the subsidence of the key strata exhibit “basin”-shape curves, and the backfill elastic modulus, mining height, and the thickness of the soft strata have significant influences on the subsidence of the key strata. The shear stress, horizontal stress, and vertical stress of key stratum can be effectively reduced by increasing the backfill elastic modulus. The increase of mining height has little influence on the stress of key stratum that close to the coal seam (key stratum #1), but has a significant effect on the stress of key stratum that above the soft layers (key stratum #2). On the contrary, the effect of increasing soft layer thickness on the stress of key stratum is opposite to that of increasing mining height. In addition, the shear failure of key stratum #1 at mining boundary and the tensile failures on both sides of mining boundary should be preferentially considered in SBCM engineering design. Due to the low shear stress level of key stratum #2, the tensile failure on both sides of the mining boundary should be mainly considered.

The deformation behavior of rolled Mg alloy AZ31, previously compressed along the rolling direction (RD), was numerically investigated under reverse tension. The EVPSC-TDT model was employed to study the effect of pre-strain on detwinning for 3%, 6% and 9% pre-compressed materials along the RD. A new criterion was proposed to control the exhaustion of detwinning under reverse tension. Numerical results show good agreement with the corresponding experimental data. It was demonstrated that the proposed criteria can capture the key features associated with detwinning in pre-compressed materials. Regardless of the amount of pre-compression, detwinning is activated under reverse tension, leading to low yield stress and a typical s-shaped flow curve. The inflection point reflects the exhaustion of detwinning, which is delayed when increasing the amount of pre-compression.

Coal-bearing rocks are inevitably exposed to high temperatures and impacts (rapid dynamic load action) during deep-earth resource extraction, necessitating the study of their mechanical properties under such conditions. This paper reports on dynamic compression tests conducted on coal-bearing mudstone specimens at real-time temperatures (the temperature of the rock remains constant throughout the impact process) ranging from 25 °C to 400 °C using a temperature Hopkinson (T-SHPB) test apparatus developed in-house. The objective is to analyze the relationship between mechanical properties and the fractal dimension of fractured fragments and to explore the mechanical response of coal-bearing mudstone specimens to the combined effects of temperature and impact using macroscopic fracture characteristics. The study found that the peak stress and dynamic elastic modulus initially increased and then decreased with increasing temperature, increasing in the 25–150 °C range and monotonically decreasing in the 150–400 °C range. Based on the distribution coefficients and fractal dimensions of the fractured fragments, it was found that the degree of damage of coal-bearing mudstone shows a trend of an initial decrease and then an increase with increasing temperature. In the temperature range of 25–150 °C, the expansion of clay minerals within the mudstone filled the voids between the skeletal particles, resulting in densification and decreased damage. In the temperature range of 150–400 °C, thermal stresses increased the internal fractures and reduced the overall strength of the mudstone, resulting in increased damage. Negative correlations between fractal dimensions, the modulus of elasticity, and peak stress could be used to predict rock properties in engineering.